Stori Bryan

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0:00:05 > 0:00:09- My father went out by ship, - on a 10 visa...

0:00:09 > 0:00:13- ..a Ten Pound Pom, to Australia - in 1950, to work on a farm.

0:00:15 > 0:00:21- Three days after reaching Melbourne, - Bob Trewin the farmer picked him up.

0:00:21 > 0:00:25- My father spent three years - with Bob, until 1953.

0:00:25 > 0:00:27- Bob said he had to take a holiday.

0:00:28 > 0:00:30- He'd worked solidly for three years.

0:00:32 > 0:00:36- My father had become close friends - with a man called Jock.

0:00:37 > 0:00:39- My father - went to Melbourne to meet him.

0:00:39 > 0:00:43- Bob Trewin was a JP, - a justice of the peace.

0:00:43 > 0:00:49- His farm was used to house criminals - and delinquents doing hard labour.

0:00:49 > 0:00:52- Bob Trewin told this lad...

0:00:52 > 0:00:58- ..that he wanted 20 fence posts - set into the ground that day.

0:00:58 > 0:01:02- Dig the holes, 20 posts, - you've got all day.

0:01:04 > 0:01:07- He saw that this lad - had done three holes.

0:01:08 > 0:01:11- There was a huge argument.

0:01:11 > 0:01:15- Enough to drive this lad - to my father's hut...

0:01:16 > 0:01:19- ..to fetch my father's gun - from under the bed...

0:01:19 > 0:01:22- ..and shoot Bob dead - at point blank range.

0:01:24 > 0:01:27- Just then, the aunt - came out of the house.

0:01:28 > 0:01:30- She opened the door and he shot her.

0:01:31 > 0:01:35- He took the cartridges and the gun - and put them in my father's ute.

0:01:35 > 0:01:37- His pick-up, his pride and joy.

0:01:40 > 0:01:42- My father was in Melbourne.

0:01:42 > 0:01:46- Jock went to the shop - and picked up a newspaper.

0:01:46 > 0:01:51- "Wanted for the double murder - of Bob Trewin and Lydia Trewin.

0:01:52 > 0:01:55- "Richard brackets Dick Moses."

0:01:56 > 0:01:58- He showed my father the paper.

0:01:58 > 0:02:02- He said, "Get dressed, - we've got to go down the cop shop.

0:02:02 > 0:02:06- "You've got to hand yourself in. - They're out looking for you."

0:02:07 > 0:02:09- It was such a shock for him.

0:02:10 > 0:02:12- He'd lost someone so close...

0:02:12 > 0:02:15- ..people who had trusted him - and taken him in.

0:02:16 > 0:02:19- Off they went to the cop shop, - the police station.

0:02:20 > 0:02:24- "I think I'm wanted, but I'm here, - I'm in Melbourne. It can't be me.

0:02:24 > 0:02:27- "Have you thought - about the youngster?

0:02:28 > 0:02:29- "I didn't trust him."

0:02:30 > 0:02:34- I think it took 40 hours - to find the pick-up, the ute.

0:02:34 > 0:02:36- It was 94 miles north...

0:02:36 > 0:02:41- ..and his gun had been buried - a foot away from the pick-up.

0:02:42 > 0:02:45- Two more days passed - before they found him.

0:02:45 > 0:02:49- My father went back to the farm - and farmed there for a year.

0:02:49 > 0:02:51- He'd lost his family again.

0:02:51 > 0:02:54- He counted these people - as his family.

0:02:54 > 0:02:56- He never got over it.

0:02:56 > 0:03:00- Even though he was 82 when he died, - he still told us the story.

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